Script Submissions

Williamstown Theatre Festival does not accept unsolicited submissions. Only agents may submit scripts. If you are not represented, you may send information about upcoming readings, workshops, or productions to submissions@wtfestival.org. Before contacting the Festival, we strongly encourage you to read our mission statement and familiarize yourself with Williamstown Theatre Festival’s interests and aesthetic.

Fellowship Projects

A part of the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s commitment to nurturing new work and the next generation of theatre artists, the Fellowship Program is one of the only director-centric developmental initiatives in the country. At the heart of the program are the prestigious Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Directing Fellowships. Annually, WTF awards these fellowships to two up-and-coming directors, challenging them to develop ambitious and ground-breaking new work in the vibrant and safe atmosphere of the Festival.

The Boris Sagal Directing Fellowship gives the opportunity to a director to develop a new play. Through an application and interview process, WTF will select a director to shepherd a new play or musical’s development process and to direct a four-performance workshop production of it.

The summer begins in the Berkshires with a three-week workshop period on the WTF campus. The Boris Sagal Directing Fellow, along with the writer(s), takes this time to develop the play material with a company of Non-Equity actors. In the second half of the summer, WTF designers join the team and embark on a more traditional, three-week rehearsal process, with the same company of actors, which culminates in a public workshop production in the Directing Studio, the Festival’s blackbox theatre.

The Bill Foeller Fellowship provides a full scholarship including a stipend for living expenses to an emerging director who is a woman and/or an artist of color in the Directing Assistant corps. Joining the festival for the complete summer season, the director chosen will assist on one of our Mainstage or Nikos stage productions and will direct two one-act plays in our Directing Studio.

The Fellowship Program is a fast-paced, artistically charged incubator for bold new work as well as a hotbed for the next generation of theatrical directors. Past Fellows have gone on to helm lauded productions in New York and around the country. The program’s alumni include May Adrales, Oliver Butler, Evan Cabnet, Carolyn Cantor, Mike Donahue, Davis McCallum, Patricia McGregor, Lila Neugebauer, and Moritz von Stuelpnagel. Past Fellowship projects, such as Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman’s BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON, Amy Herzog’s AFTER THE REVOLUTION, and Samuel D. Hunter’s POCATELLO, have gone on to Off-Broadway and Broadway productions.

J. Michael Friedman Fellowship

In honor of the late American lyricist and composer J. Michael Friedman, the Fellowship identifies an early-career theatre artist of exceptional talent, versatility, impact and humanity who has demonstrated an artistic commitment to Williamstown Theatre Festival, and invites them to make new work for a summer. The purpose is for the Fellow to create or collaborate on work deemed important and meaningful to the Fellow’s artistic and career development and to the life and culture of the Festival.

This Fellowship is not open for applications, as it is awarded to an artist who is already participating in the current festival season.